Reader: Palabra: A Sampling of Contemporary Latino Writers
Accession Number - 1188
| Date: | 01/01/93 |
| Length: | 60 minutes |
| Tape Quality: | good |
| Collection: | Poetry Center |
| Ethnicity: | Latino |
| Language: | English |
| Use Policy: | available |
| Content: | Written by Benjamín Alire Sáenz and Rosemary Catacalos. Narrated by Rosemary Catacalos. Produced by The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives. Octavio Paz: excerpt from "Hablo de la Ciudad" ("I Speak of the City"). Elba Rosario Sánchez: "War Fronts." Francisco X. Alarcón: "Las Flores Son Nuestras Armas/Flowers Are Our Weapons." Ana Castillo: "In My Country." José Montoya: "El Louie." Juan Felipe Herrera: "Papaya." Victor Hernández Cruz: "Art-This." Lorna Dee Cervantes: "Letters To David, Stage IV." Luis J. Rodríguez: "Race' Politics." Jimmy Santiago Baca: from Martín & Meditations on the South Valley. Lucha Corpi: "Labor de Retazos," and "Patchwork." Demetria Martínez: from Mother Tongue. Gloria Anzaldúa: "Letting Go." Bernice Zamora: "Love, A Mother's." Gary Soto: "Bulosan, 1935." Ernesto Cardenal: a section of the book-length poem Cántico Cósmico, translation read by Alejandro Murguía. Carlos Fuentes: from La regíon más transparente (Where The Air Is Clear). |
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